Trump tax rate claims prompt bizarre exchange with White House press

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday found herself in the position, yet again, of defending President Donald Trump’s false claims about the U.S. tax rate.

Trump frequently says that the U.S. is the “highest taxed nation in the world,” and did so again Tuesday morning at a meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

In reality, the U.S. ranks 13th among developed nations, and well behind countries such as Norway, Luxembourg and Sweden, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But this doesn’t stop Trump from repeating the falsehood.

The entire exchange lasted less than a minute, but it epitomized the difficulty that financial markets, journalists and U.S. allies around the globe encounter in trying to determine what the Trump administration believes, and why that doesn’t always square with accepted facts.

Trump is scheduled to visit Pennsylvania on Wednesday to deliver a speech on the need for tax reform. Similar speeches the president has delivered in North Dakota and Indiana have all included references to America as the “highest taxed nation in the world.”

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